The Green Paper on language and literacy: An overview and an assessment

Sussex, Roland

doi:10.1075/aralss.8.03sus

Article published In: Language Planning and Language Policy in Australia
Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 8] 1991
► pp. 39–63

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The Green Paper on language and literacy

An overview and an assessment

Roland Sussex | Centre for Language Teaching and Research, University of Queensland

Published online: 1 January 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/aralss.8.03sus

The Green Paper The Language of Australia released in December 1990, is the first step in a reworking of language policy in Australia. This paper reviews some of the issues raised in the Green Paper and looks at the implications the agenda the Green Paper sets. The Green Paper contains some good ideas in a flawed cover. The positive aspects of the document will need to be developed in a context based on a holistic view of language and literacy policy and a strong commitment to the consolidation of language policy initiatives.

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